Disorder suppression and precise conductance quantization in constrictions of PbTe quantum wells

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Grabecki, G ^a   Wrobel J ^a   Dietl, T ^a,b,c   Janik, E ^a   Aleszkiewicz, M ^a   Papis, E ^d   Kaminska E ^d   Piotrowska, A ^d   Springholz, G ^e   Bauer, G ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Department of Micro and Nanotechnology of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors   (Poland)

^e JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

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EID: 29744450473     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.125332     Document Type: Article

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